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Disclaimer: I forgot the last few (oops) but I think by now you guys have figured out that I am not J.K. Rowling and I do not own the Harry Potter series.
"Well," George said loudly. "I have absolutely no idea where we are." He was not alone in that. None of them knew where they were at the moment. They were standing in the middle of someone's front lawn, unnoticed by the children dressed in their Halloween costumes as well as the parents screaming behind them to stop running ahead. There were many houses along the unpaved pathway, most looking slightly old and weathered. Yet the small cottages managed to look nice with all of the slightly outdated architecture.
"What do we do now?" Ginny asked quietly.
"We wait for something to happen. If this is one of the twin's memories than this is where they will have experienced it so we will be able to see." Hermione said.
"Why do all of the kids keep running past the house?" Ron asked quietly. When everybody looked, they noticed that he was correct. These did not look like the type of children that would skip out on a house when they knew there might be candy inside.
"Maybe this house is supposed to be haunted?" George said. All of them looked to the house in curiosity.
"That does not look like a house to be afraid of." Ginny said. "The meanest thing that could live in there is a ladybug." She was right, that house looked like nothing to be afraid of. In fact, it was rather nice and homey looking.
"Merlin's pants." Ginny whispered quietly in shock. Everyone glanced towards her and then in the direction that she was staring. In the window, they saw a sight that made them all quietly gasp.
Sitting in the windowsill was what clearly a younger version of Joey. She looked about five years old and was leaning on her hand and looking out the window longingly. "Oh no." Hermione whispered in horror.
"What?" Ron asked quickly. "Are you okay?" Everybody stared at her in fear.
"I'm fine." She assured them quickly. "But I've just realized where we are." At their confused looks, she elaborated. "It's Halloween."
"Um. I think we had all figured that out by now Hermione." Fred said confusedly.
Hermione rolled her eyes. "Yes, I know that. But this, this is Halloween in 1981. And we…are in Godrics Hollow."
Everybody looked horrified at this new piece of information. After a while, Ron spoke up. "Does that mean that we're going to have to watch Harry's parents die?" Hermione nodded at the ground, looking close to tears.
Fred closed his eyes and leant back against the house for support so that he wouldn't fall over. Or at least he tried to. He ended up falling on his back halfway between the Potter's house and their porch. Everyone was shocked out of their reveries as they gathered to help Fred up. "I guess we know how to get inside now." He said quietly. After a few seconds of silence, they all started walking in.
When they were all in the house, they couldn't help but smile even though they knew what was going to happen. On the floor sat James and Danny…playing with dolls. James did not seem even a tiny bit uncomfortable despite the fact that Sirius would have teased him forever if he saw this. James was struggling to get a Barbie doll into a dress that was clearly for the wrong doll as it was never going to fit.
"Not that one Daddy!" Danny giggled from her spot on the floor before handing James a different dress. "This one!"
"Of course!" James said enthusiastically. Clearly only trying to make Danny laugh again.
"He looks so much like Harry." Fred said quietly, as if he were afraid of ruining the moment. "I know people say it to him all the time but I never really realized how much until now." Nobody answered but clearly they were all thinking the same thing.
"Why can't we go outside?" Joey asked petulantly from her spot in the window.
James visibly braced himself. From his face they could tell that this was a conversation that they had had many times before. "I told you Jojo, it's dangerous. We have to stay where it's safe for a while."
Joey seemed to accept this answer grudgingly. She sat down with them on the floor and gingerly picked up the doll in front of her. At that moment, the door next to the staircase opened. Through the door, there was a kitchen with the dinner dishes still soaking in the sink and chairs hastily pushed in closer to the table as well as a high chair sitting in the corner.
However, none of them noticed this. They were more interested in the woman who had pushed the door open. In front of them stood a living Lily Potter, carrying the boy who was the reason that they were here. "James, you are doing the dishes." She said quickly, striding over to the dark couch in front of the fire. She was soon flanked on either side by her daughters who were trying to get a closer look at the baby Harry.
James looked like he was about to protest but was silenced with a glare. He stood up and walked into the kitchen muttering "women" sullenly under his breath. Lily, however, heard this and answered back.
"If you didn't want to do chores, James then you should have married Sirius." Lily said. "Oh! Did he mention anything in his last letter about proposing to Marlene?"
"Sirius was engaged?" Ron asked shocked. He didn't seem like the type to want to get married.
"Apparently." Ginny said. "Who's Marlene? Her name sound familiar but I don't remember meeting anybody named Marlene.
"That's because we never met her." Hermione said. "They must be talking about Marlene McKinnon. She was in that picture Mad-Eye showed everyone at headquarters. She died only a few days before Voldemort attacked Godrics Hollow. They must not know yet. Oh poor Sirius." She said sadly.
"No wonder he looked upset when Mad-Eye was showing us that picture." George said. "It had his dead fiancé in it." They all looked back to the scene in front of them. James had rejoined them in the living room, finished with the dishes.
"Alright you two, let's clean this up." James said, handing Harry to Lily as she walked up the stairs to put him to bed. "All the dolls go back in the closet." Both girls started cleaning up with disappointed but tired looks. When they were putting the dolls back on the shelves in the walk in closet however, their father jumped as an alarm went off.
"LILY HE'S COMING!" James shouted across the house. "TAKE HARRY AND RUN I'VE GOT THE GIRLS!" He turned back to the girls and whispered quickly, "Stay quiet and don't come out of here no matter what happens." Then he closed the door of the closet and locked them in from the outside. "Peter you bastard." He whispered quietly to himself, shaking his head.
He did all this just in time to retreat to the center of the room as the door burst open. The Weasleys and Hermione had been pushed into the closet as well, seeing as they were viewing this from the twin's point of view. They crowded near the grate at the bottom of the closet door where Joey and Danny had already moved. They watched as James Potter fell to the floor dead after a flash of green light. They heard the sob of terror and shock Danny let out that Voldemort did not, drowned out by the screams of Lily Potter from the nursery upstairs. They saw Joey pull her sister to the back of the closet as Voldemort passed by, pulling her into a hug but also covering her mouth to muffle her cries. Joey's own mouth was quivering and tears were slipping down her face silently as her eyes clenched shut.
Both girls sat hugging each other close as they listened to their mothers last words in horror. Then they heard an ominous thump that was most likely her body falling to the floor. The small group that had intruded on this awful memory watched both girls huddled in the corner. Both girls eyes opened fearfully when they heard the cries of a child just seconds after their mothers fall. "Harry!" They whispered in horror.
Suddenly, there was a loud explosion and everything went black. Then it all came rushing back into view, and they all saw the twins laying on the ground next to each other, unconscious.
"What the bloody hell happened?" Ron asked in shock, looking around at the rubble that used to be a house. The walls that used to encase the closet were gone, half the house was burning and they could hear Harry screaming from upstairs.
"They must've gotten knocked out from the explosion." Ginny said through her tears, answering Ron only because Hermione was too busy trying to stop sobbing. "And now they're waking up. We're in their memories so we can only see what they see.
Ginny was proved right when Joey sat up slowly, kneeling next to her sister while trying not to look at her fathers corpse, which was only a few feet away. She shook her sister awake and pulled her to her feet, only to have her collapse to the ground with her head in her hands and her body racking with heavy sobs. It was then that they both seemed to notice the screaming. Both girls stood and ran in the direction they heard it from. They found themselves in the kitchen, which used to be below the newly destroyed nursery.
They quickly ran towards the corner, where they found Harry and pulled him out from under several pieces of wood. It seemed that he had been saved when his crib fell sideways and protected him from the falling bits of their home.
"What are we supposed to do?" Danny asked through her sobs, cradling their brother in her arms while Joey sat closely next to her. Joey finally broke down in sobs as well, the stress of their situation finally hitting her. Hard.
"I don't know." She whispered breathily, unable to breathe as well with sobs tearing out of her throat. "I don't know what to do." The small group watching them were finding it hard to control their own feelings as well, watching both girls fall into despair as they tried to comfort the screaming child.
They were all shocked out of their own moments of horror when they heard a familiar voice calling out. "Harry! Danny! Joey!"
"Hagrid!" The Danny called out desperately. "In here!" They both stood from where they had sat down on the ground. They both let out a sigh of desperate relief when they saw the friendly half giant emerge from behind the rubble that surrounded them.
"Oh thank Merlin!" Hagrid said quickly. He plowed his way through to them. "Are ya' hurt?"
"No, we're fine." Danny said, "But he-he killed mum and dad." She pointed with a shaking finger to the ruined living room, tears still streaming down her face. Joey had not talked since she had broken down. "We thought he tried to kill Harry but he's still alive. And except for this scar on his forehead, he seems fine."
Hagrid looked like he was alarmed at what he saw, but was not able to say anything before they all heard the huge rumble that could only be Sirius' motorcycle. "Sirius!" Danny yelled.
"Girls, Hagrid!" Sirius shouted, climbing off of his bike. "What happened?"
"Voldemort attacked the house!" Danny shouted, sobbing in Sirius' arms. "He killed Mum and Dad and he tried to kill Harry!"
Sirius looked up in shock at Hagrid, his eyes pleading for him to say she was lying. Tears streamed down his face when Hagrid nodded in confirmation, also crying. He braced himself and continued talking. "I'll take them. My flat isn't exactly good for raising children, but I can get a new one."
"No Sirius, I've orders straight from Dumbledore on where to take Harry." Hagrid said quickly.
"Hagrid, I'm supposed to be their legal guardian. All of them." Sirius said in shock.
Hagrid answered quickly, trying to stop the argument before it began. "Sirius, sumtin really tragic 'as jus' happened, you need ta trus that Dumbledore is `doin all he can to help, righ now, we need ta help him by doin wat e' says. I need ta take Harry to Dumbledore, an you need ta take Danny and Joey ta Aberforth."
Sirius looked mad, but he seemed to agree that Dumbledore would be able to take care of the situation better than he would. The group of viewers however greatly contested this, as they knew what Sirius would do as soon as he dropped off the twins, as well as where Harry would be sent until his years at Hogwarts. However, they were forced to watch as Sirius convinced Hagrid to take his bike and then dissaparated with the twins clinging desperately to his legs.
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